[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly considers the importance of complete rest.
- Citizen Science Salon looks at the contributions of ordinary people to Alzheimer’s research.
- The Crux notes how recent planetary scientists acknowledge Venus to be an interestingly active world.
- D-Brief notes the carnivorous potential of pandas.
- Cody Delistraty considers a British Library exhibit about writing.
- Bruce Dorminey notes the possibility that, in red giant systems, life released from the interiors of thawed outer-system exomoons might produce detectable signatures in these worlds’ atmospheres.
- The Dragon’s Tales shares reports of some of the latest robot developments from around the world.
- Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog considers the concepts of gentrification and meritocracy.
- Gizmodo notes a running dinosaur robot that indicates one route by which some dinosaurs took to flight.
- At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox talks about bringing some principles of Wendell Berry to a town hall discussion in Sterling, Kansas.
- io9 notes that a reboot of Hellraiser is coming from David S. Goyer.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how museums engage in the deaccessioning of items in their collections.
- Language Log examines the Mongolian script on the renminbi bills of China.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how Volkswagen in the United States is making the situation of labour unions more difficult.
- Marginal Revolution notes the effective lack of property registration in the casbah of Algiers.
- The NYR Daily notes the Afrofuturism of artist Devan Shinoyama.
- Strange Company examines the trial of Jane Butterfield in the 1770s for murdering the man who kept her as a mistress with poison. Did she do it? What happened to her?
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes a controversial map identifying by name the presidents of the hundred companies most closely implicated in climate change.
- Window on Eurasia notes how the Russian Orthodox Church, retaliating against the Ecumenical Patriarchy for its recognition of Ukrainian independence, is moving into Asian territories outside of its purview.
- Arnold Zwicky starts a rumination by looking at the sportswear of the early 20th century world.
Written by Randy McDonald
May 7, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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